Left Unsaid.

What Your Parents Didn't See.

This Junior Parents Weekend, there were some things that your parents probably did not have the pleasure of seeing. Aside from the obvious – like your friends Jack Daniels and Jose Cuervo – I can think of three sights that went unseen.

*Homeless in the Square. Where'd they all go? Apparently the veritas of our society was not on the agenda for the weekend. So move along, poor people. I mean, a university sitting on $25.9 billion clearly needs your family's money more than they do, right?


*Final clubs. While the sight of daddy’s little boys toasting their own privilege in Mt. Auburn mansions would’ve made the old money proud, the whole taking-
advantage-of-your-daughter thing might have rubbed some parents the wrong way. 

*Demonic faculty. Little do your parents know that the Harvard faculty actually consists of a pack of rabid radicals plotting to bring down the great men of our time, corrupt the youth with their left-wing ideas, and destroy Western civilization as we know it.

At least they made up for what they missed with experiences we don't get the rest of the year. Like art museums, professors you can talk to, and the semblance of a Harvard community.

Comments

  • Re: What Your Parents Didn't See.

    regarding the picture you selected: i thought it was rather interesting because the Cabot House senior common room event this coming wednesday will be hosting a talk on that painting.  unfortunately i have nothing else to say regarding the event because i won't be attending it.


    • Re: What Your Parents Didn't See.

      Ah, in that case let me fill you in.  American Gothic, one of the earlier works of proto-modernist Alfie Boudreaux, is an enigmatic tribute to the cult of Poseidon (notice the trident) that developed around the Great Lakes region in the mid to late 1800's.  The female figure on the left is actually a self portarit of Boudreaux, whereas the man depicted is rumored to be the high priest of the Milwaukee Temple of Poseidon.  Most of the midwestern Poseidon cults fizzled out when it became known (possibly as a result of saboteurs that had infiltrated the groups) that the Great Lakes were not an ocean, just great big lakes.  You really should have gone to the talk!






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